Johan Gustav Bellika

Bio

Professor Johan Gustav Bellika has worked in the intersection between medicine, medical research and informatics since 1992, when he joined the Department of Community Medicine at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. He has a master's from 1997 and a Phd from 2006 in computer science from UiT The Arctic University of Norway. He has worked at the Norwegian Centre for Telemedicine at the University Hospital of North Norway since 1997. In the period between 2007 and 2013 he joined the department of computer science to teach and research in relation to the international master program in Telemedicine and e-health. He is now a professor in Medical informatics at the department of clinical medicine, Faculty of health sciences at UiT The Arctic University of Norway and the Norwegian Centre for E-health Research at the University hospital of North Norway. His current research focus is on technology to enable privacy-preserving reuse of health data and supporting a learning healthcare system.

Prof. Bellika has contributed to more that 100 scientific publication in international journals and peer reviewed conferences. Prof. Bellika has extensive experience as supervisor for Master's and PhD students and postdocs. He has also served in organizing and scientific committees for national and international conferences. Prof. Bellika is the CRIO (chief research informatics officer) for the Norwegian primary care research network called PraksisNett and is heading the work developing, implementing and operating the IT system part of the Norwegian research infrastructure for primary care.